Jr. Cloud Engineer

Cutover; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

An inclusive work environment is an empowering one. At Cutover, we lead with empathy and enable others to succeed through curiosity, kindness, and self-expression.

Location: London, Hybrid (2-3 days per week in our Shoreditch office)

Cutover's Collaborative Automation SaaS platform enables enterprises to simplify complexity, streamline work, and increase visibility. Cutover's automated runbooks connect teams, technology, and systems, increasing efficiency and reducing risk in IT disaster and cyber recovery, cloud migration, release management, and technology implementation. Cutover is trusted by world-leading institutions, including the three largest US banks and three of the world's five largest investment banks.

We're thrilled to open our search for junior engineering talent to join our Platform Engineering team in London! As we continue to grow and scale our platform, we're looking for passionate, curious minds who are eager to learn and contribute to our cloud infrastructure journey. This is an excellent opportunity for someone at the start of their career to work with cutting-edge technologies alongside experienced engineers who are committed to mentoring the next generation of cloud talent.

What tech stack do we use here at Cutover?

Our Cutover Enterprise platform is currently a Single Tenant platform, composed from a ReactJS frontend communicating with a Ruby on Rails API, hosted entirely on AWS, utilising RDS, Elasticache, Lambdas and many more. Cloud Engineers on our team primarily engage with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Github Actions, DataDog and occasionally employ Ruby/Bash/Python scripting.

As a Junior Cloud Engineer, here's what you'll be up to:

• Learn and contribute to our EKS/K8s environment under the mentorship of senior engineers.
• Assist in implementing and maintaining cloud infrastructure using AWS services.
• Contribute to implementation of Platform Engineering features such as CI/CD, Production Engineering, and Monitoring.
• Collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver technical improvements.
• Working closely with experienced engineers to develop your skills in cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and implement infrastructure requirements.
• Contributing to troubleshooting and resolving cloud-related issues.

What we'd like you to bring to the table...

• 0-2 years of experience in a Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering role (internships, academic projects, or personal projects count!).
• Some experience or understanding of Kubernetes (EKS/K8s) and AWS services.
• Some experience or understanding of platform engineering - CI/CD pipelines, Observability platforms, IaC.
• A strong motivation to learn and grow in cloud technologies and infrastructure.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with a willingness to take on challenges.
• Enthusiasm for working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

The good stuff...

• We're excited to offer Share Options as part of our compensation package.
• 25 days of PTO per year + public holidays, and we want you to take all of them!
• 3 volunteer days to use for any charitable/voluntary cause you would like.
• A top-tier private health insurance package.
• Aviva pension scheme.
• Work from home stipends.
• A personal learning and development budget through Learnerbly. You'll be supported in your quest for knowledge, whatever that looks like to you.
• If you're thinking of starting or growing your family, then you'll be in great company - more than half of our team are parents and we've built a globally consistent parental leave approach that we're proud of.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• Safeguarding the mental health of our teams is paramount for us. If you'd like to, then you'll be able to avail yourself of multiple Cutover mental health initiatives, from fully subsidized therapy sessions to subscriptions to leading wellbeing platforms.

Target compensation package: £35,000 - £50,000 base, + stock options + benefits.

The final offer may vary from the target compensation package, taking into consideration factors such as your experience level and skill set. If we aren't aligned on salary at this stage, we'd still love to hear from you to better understand if there are more suitable opportunities at Cutover.

Diversity Statement - Empowering Our Teams

We encourage our team to bring their authentic selves to work, which we have found has strengthened workplace relationships and fostered a genuine sense of community.

If you are excited by this role, we invite you to apply! Even if your profile doesn't check all the boxes, please don't simply scroll past! We recognize that talent lies everywhere and that some demographic groups are more likely to apply for a "stretch role" than others. We are always open to different perspectives and professional backgrounds to keep Cutover's culture evolving and to ensure that we never stop learning.

Cutover is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Maintaining an equitable hiring process is imperative to our mission. All applicants are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, protected veteran or parental status.

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